We must discover how to implement the art of instilling true virtue and piety through a consistent method and introduce it into schools, so that we may justly call schools the "gymnasiums of humanity."
Everyone should pray to possess a healthy mind within a healthy body.
A teacher should be a person of exceptional moral character.
All discipline should be applied with care, for its only purpose should be to guide students to complete their work perfectly.
O, educators of youth! May your sacred vocation and the trust placed in you by parents become a flame within you; may this flame ignite both yourselves and those you influence, until the whole nation is illuminated by this torch of passion.
Nothing under the sun is more noble than the profession of teaching.
Young people should be kind to others, give to each what is due, avoid hypocrisy and deceit, be sincere and pleasing, and learn to act with integrity.
The teaching profession is the most glorious profession under the sun.
Every human being has a necessity for education.
Sound judgment of facts is the true foundation of all virtue.
Virtue is realized through action, not through words.
A school without discipline is like a mill without water.
An ignorant and passive teacher is like a shadow without a body, a cloud without rain, a source without water, or a lamp without light—utterly empty and void.